A Letter from the CEO
My grandfather, Wilbur Rubottom, was the kind of entrepreneur the Greatest Generation produced in abundance and the rest of us have been trying to replicate ever since. He could build anything he needed out of wood, identify a species of hardwood by its odor, and run a thriving business at the same time. He invented the machines he required to do the job, and then built them with his own hands. He founded W.L. Rubottom Co. in post-World War II California, and it has lasted for three generations.
Wilbure Rubottom hand carving the Juniperro Serra statue
I started out sweeping sawdust in that shop in the fifth grade and have lived the life of a construction entrepreneur myself for a couple decades. People often ask if I can build them a cabinet, myself. I tell them I could, but they would rather have one built by my team, because they are far better craftspeople than I. But that is the point of running a business. We have union craftsmen with decades of experience, working on CNC machines with millimeter precision in a shop that has been making cabinets in Southern California for over eighty years. We make our own Shaker doors in house. We turn production volume jobs around with the speed and expertise of a factory and the spec of a custom shop. Most operations are capable of one or the other, but we have always been both.
Southern California is our market, and it is also our home. Our employees hail from towns like Santa Paula, Ventura, Fillmore, Oxnard, and Ojai. Our drivers run the 101 daily with the sunset on their shoulders, from the San Fernando Valley to Paso Robles in the center of wine country. We have worked with nearly every builder who has built a tract home in SoCal since the 1950s. If you have a home built here in the twentieth century, we may not have made your cabinets, but we knew the guy who did, and we bid against him. If the original cabinets are still in place, there is a reasonable chance they are Rubottom cabinets because our product lasts.
We operate with the firm belief that what you put on the wall of the home matters. In the construction industry we walk the halls of your home long before you do. W.L. Rubottom Company takes pride in that. The memories that make up a family often occur within the confines of the kitchen, and while you are setting the table or putting the dishes away, each time that cabinet door opens and closes it adds to our legacy. Our employees are integral to that legacy, and if you call us, you can be part of it too.
We would love to work with you. Call us at the number below and a real live person will answer the phone.
Sincerely,
Jay B. McCoy